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:Apparently not. I moved it to the trivia section. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 07:51, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
 
:Apparently not. I moved it to the trivia section. [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 07:51, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
  
I do not agree with the statement that "The title text may also be a sly reference to an actual mathematical theorem, namely that if one performs this procedure only using the arithmetic mean and the harmonic mean, the result will converge to the geometric mean." Could one produce a reference to this result? A simple computer experiment does not show this "theorem" to be true, i.e. for the procedure to return the geometric mean of the original entry. [[User:Pointfivegully|Pointfivegully]] ([[User talk:Pointfivegully|talk]]) 15:04, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
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I do not get the statement that "The title text may also be a sly reference to an actual mathematical theorem, namely that if one performs this procedure only using the arithmetic mean and the harmonic mean, the result will converge to the geometric mean." Could one produce a reference to this result? A computer experiment did not show it to be true. [[User:Pointfivegully|Pointfivegully]] ([[User talk:Pointfivegully|talk]]) 15:04, 12 March 2021 (UTC)
  
 
= Here is a reference https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1734978/computing-square-roots-with-arithmetic-harmonic-mean. You must have made a mistake in your computer experiment. As an example, see the details I posted about Cueball and Megan exchanging dollars and euros. This is actually a handy way to compute square roots by hand.  
 
= Here is a reference https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1734978/computing-square-roots-with-arithmetic-harmonic-mean. You must have made a mistake in your computer experiment. As an example, see the details I posted about Cueball and Megan exchanging dollars and euros. This is actually a handy way to compute square roots by hand.  

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